POV Narrator:
The months went by, Bernadette, Laura and Chelsea were training most of this time, McLaren who is the leader of the family was surprising with the enormous magic power that was in their hands because she became the leader of the family, so that she was very useful for the training of the couple that used her to increase a little more their magic power, even more using the robes that restricted the same. Elisabeth taught the girl everything she could about the powers that the tattoo is capable of doing, even controlling her own body using it as a wand without harming it. All this training made them much more powerful as witches, they were able to raise their level of magical power even more, which made them become the most powerful witches at that moment, getting quite a bit to be something on the Margaret Ford level of magic, Elisabeth even told the girls that they were half of all the immense power she had at that time, Each of the months went by normally in which they alternated their training, one month being only heavy training and the next being one week on and one week getting used to it, and so on until December when they took a definitive break during the week from Christmas to the New Year.
In Laura's career she picked up 25 wins in the entire European Broom Racing Championship season and the Leaf team had no choice, they had to move Laura up to the World Broom Racing Championship before another team does the same with her, but since they didn't want to lose the fastest racer they have ever seen, Elizabeth soon moved to a 4 season contract with the highest salary they could afford with a contract fee of 10 million pounds for the 50 wins the girl won in EBRC plus the 29 wins she won in BBRT, all those 79 wins were no small thing, no racer had ever before had that many wins before moving up to the highest category of broom racing, it was a record for the most wins before moving up a category. Already the salary made her the most expensive rookie in the history of the event, since other teams wanted almost 20 million pounds for the runner, but the team needed to act and so not to lose a runner that would give them a lot of money Laura was hired for 20 million pounds per year by LEAF, which would give a total of 100 million pounds in these 4 years of contract, this plus extras like 5 million bonus if she wins the championship, it was all an euphoria created on Laura before the season even started, but even with the contract the team didn't want to follow with the broom models designed by Laura, saying that they were inexperienced projects, even though she had already shown how in smaller teams they showed results, still the broom for the 1991 season seemed to be very promising, since the one of 1990 was even disputing some podiums and even got a victory in that season with Laura's team mate that was Hannah Perkins, an experienced racer who won the 1988 season for Scuderia Carlucci.
At the Cavendish family mansion things continued the same, Daryl was getting more powerful as time went by, she was already starting to endure a lot more of that training Clarie was forcing her to do, it was a real pain for her, which created a greater hatred in her head for Bernadette and also for her own mother who insisted hard in all that, Even more so because every time her daughter managed to get close to holding on, she would push harder, putting more weight and restricting the magic, which made Daryl's latent magic even greater, it was a huge potential hidden in the girl, that the moment she took off those restricting clothes would cause a huge explosion of magic in her that could barely hold so much magical power. Clarie didn't care, she wanted to see her daughter beat her eldest, she wanted the girl to be imposing and frightening.
Friday, December 28, 1990
Christmas went by, the girls had a magical Christmas even since Laura and Bernadette didn't want to spend Christmas at the Cavendish mansion, they would only go there after the festivity, since they had no choice but to perform the ritual on the last day of the year, having to endure the snakes in their natural habitat. That was one of the best Christmases ever, since not only the McLaren family was there, their friends came to participate, April, Scarlet, Morgana, Aika, Rosemary and her boyfriend came to spend the festivity at the McLaren family residence, besides the illustrious presence of Bernadette's grandmother who came to warn them not to be late since there were three days left to the Cavendish family ritual. That winter morning was dawning as usual, it was a cloudy day with a lot of cold, the grass outside was frozen by the morning frost, rains and more rains and strong gusts in this winter that had already begun in a very intense way at the beginning of the month. Laura and Bernadette were waking up and both were looking at each other smiling.
POV Laura:
She is so beautiful... It's today... Today that we go home... Today that we go to the place... I hope that everything works out, I don't want things to end up worse, I'm still afraid of what might happen since the prediction is that I will have a great loss in my life, but what will this great loss be? What will happen? There are so many doubts, I am even becoming afraid to leave the house... I have to be strong, I can't be weak, that's what the Cavendish there want, that we lower our heads and stay here, while they are there destroying a whole history of more than 1300 years that Beatrix built along these centuries? I quickly detach myself from all this reflection to look at Bernadette's face that was staring at me? How cute... She's so cute like that, so I give her a little kiss on her face, just to say good morning to her.
- Good morning my love - I say to her who smiles at me.
POV Bernadette:
- Good morning - I answer my little freckle and then we kiss each other good morning as we both get up to go to do our personal hygiene... Today is the day... I'm going back to that place... I confess that if I had a choice and Daryl was a good person I would not be going there, I would leave it in the hands of my sister and I would gladly embrace this place... The McLaren residence is much better than any other place I have ever been... They are all very friendly here, we are all happy, cheerful, we are all of us... Laura's family is very open minded, they are all very receptive and they accept me as I am, they even consider me part of the family even though I am like this... Even more than my own family... I remember that I received many comments about my eye only, I remember that my mother wanted to make my eye blue just because it was green... But today I see that it was all part of an image that they want to maintain that the Cavendish have to be perfect and not even they can keep themselves that way... They want to kill what Beatrix has built... She didn't escape being forced to marry Floyd Appleton to become one of the nine great witches only to come along and tell them that it is wrong to be a lesbian when Beatrix herself fought for it.
In this mental monologue I didn't even notice anything, but I was doing everything, taking a shower, brushing my teeth, I didn't even notice that last night I made love to Laura, I only noticed the marks on her body... After all it is always good to relax a little before the final battle hehe... After we finished everything we put on some winter clothes, and we also packed our bags. Laura made sure to put almost all her things inside, we packed a lot of bags from what I noticed... So I guess we are going there by car... Now I understood why we woke up so early like this. We finished with the luggage, then we went downstairs and left it in the new car that Laura got for Christmas, which she freaked out when she got it... We filled the whole trunk of Clover Emerald Alpha and then we went to the kitchen where we arrived just in time for Chelsea's breakfast that was still training.
- Good morning! - Chelsea and Laura's great-grandmother said to us.
- Good morning - I say, yawning at both of them and then go to wash my hand in the sink, together with Laura.
So we went soon to eat some waffles and cookies very warm accompanied by a hot dog made by the great-grandmother Elisabeth, she is always so kind with the food, I really loved the time I spent in this place... All of Laura's family communicates very well, they are all very cute and wonderful... Laura's father reminds me of my father, he is as nice as my father was and you can see how much the two girls adore him, as well as Joanne who is how I always wanted my mother to be... She is amazing, mature, playful sometimes... I will miss this place very much... It has been 3 years now that I have been here all the time, it has become my home all these years, but now it is time to go back... We talked a lot with Laura's great-grandmother and Chelsea about our going and after we finished eating everything we heard people coming down the stairs, it was Laura's parents waking up at that time.
POV Laura:
My parents came to say goodbye to us by the looks of it... I will leave here for Scotland, but you can be sure that I will still visit them a lot in Ireland, they are incredible people... I will miss them... But I am sure that good times will also come when we have our Diana... After we ate everything we got up and went to the living room where we hugged each one of my family, I was crying a lot in the arms of my parents? I will miss them so much.
- Oh Laura... Don't be like that my darling, you can still visit us a lot... It's not like it's an eternal goodbye - they both said comforting me, and then I went to hug my great-grandmother.
- I am proud of you my great-granddaughter, your choice was noble and worthy of a great witch... I will miss you a lot... Take care - said Greaty Lisa and I finished my hug to my little sister, and we both cried our eyes out... Me saying goodbye to her, my Chelsea... She was a very fucked up part of my life.
- Little sister... I will miss you so fucking much... Take care... I know you are going to be a very fucked up leader in these years, obey everything bisa says, you will make her very proud yet... I'll be there from Scotland rooting for you... Oh, and don't give up on drama school... Just because you're the leader of the family doesn't mean you'll give up on your dream of becoming a great actress and bringing representation of all of us lesbians to the world... I love you Chelsea... I love you all... My family... Goodbye - I say while waving to everyone and heading towards the garage, Bernadette was still saying goodbye to everyone from what I imagine... She is part of our family too, I just don't want to get any more emotional than I already am with their speech.
POV Bernadette:
Ah Laura's farewell was so touching, they also want to say goodbye to me, soon I am hugged by everyone at once which makes me all flushed and feeling comfortable at the same time... I have never felt something like this before... A family... I am the family... I am family... I am still trying to process this in 3 years here... But now it's time to say goodbye to them... To leave to conquer what is rightfully ours... I will miss them.
- Bernadette Cavendish... Thank you for showing up in our daughter's life... You're the only one we don't care that you're stealing our little girl... I really appreciate how vital a part you played in maturing my little girl... She deserves all of this... Laura is so well, so happy by your side, I thank you so much because of that... My happy Laura is what fills a mother's heart with pride... She deserves you very much... Take care over there and take care of yourselves... Don't worry in case something happens If everything goes wrong, the McLaren house will always have its doors open to support witches who go through all the terror and pressure that you go through... You are the example of a strong and empowered woman... You are a real woman... Strong and submissive to nothing... I love you girl... I know that Laura was also very responsible for giving you this strength and completing you... That's what I admire so much in both of you... Goodbye Bernadette Cavendish... Take good care of my little girl and I will love one day to be a grandmother to those children that the fertility stone will give us - Joanne said, which even moved me... Laura was on the other side of the garage door spying everything and crying all cute... How cute... So after this beautiful speech from Laura's mother we went to the car and started the trip back to Scotland.
POV Narrator:
Laura left the McLaren family home at eight o'clock in the morning with a full tank of gas, in a 471 km trip through Ireland, Northern Ireland, taking a ferry to cross the Irish Sea and thus arrive in Scotland, where they went through a heavy rain on the icy road until they arrived in Weddinburgh. After a long trip of 7 hours, they were finally in the capital of Scotland at three o'clock in the afternoon, which was close to sunset, especially because it was winter time, so the couple followed the route to Bernadette's family mansion, which was a little bit further away from the city center. Before they left the trip the Scot had sent her grandmother a letter a few days earlier advising that she would arrive on the evening of December 28.
POV Bernadette:
We are here... We have finally arrived at the place... My old home... Ahhhhhh... Just getting close I already feel a scary aura coming from here... Damn... This place gives me the creeps... I'm afraid of what might happen here... I am afraid that I might regret this decision and get beaten up a lot, or even do something to Laura... My mother... My sister all here... Oh fuck... I'm so fucking scared... What do I do... I'm fucked up... Calm down Bern ... You're not like that. As soon as the car arrives we are approached by two security guards at the gate, Laura and I roll down our windows and they look at us both.
- Who are you? What are you doing here? And that Cavendish-haired girl... Oh Bernadette! She's back! After years! But we still have to see what this redhead is doing next to her... - Said one of the security guards as he lifted his suit and showed the gun and Laura was all calm and not tense at that moment.
- If I were you I would take my hand off your waist right now, don't make me get out of this car if you don't want me to make you swallow this silver one out of your ass! I'm Laura McLaren if you don't mind, and this is my girlfriend Bernadette Cavendish! Get away from my car! And if you lay one finger on it and scratch it, I'll scratch your face on the asphalt in the suit - Laura said all clueless and intimidating, which made even the security guard more serious.
- Get out of the car now! Both of you! We have to search to see if they won't go - Said one of the security guards until I hear a familiar voice... It was my grandmother.
- Sean! Geralt! Let them both through now and clear the gate! I'm ordering you to go, and that's an order from your boss! - Said my grandmother all imposing through the microphone which the two security guards change to become complete statues and then they let the two of us through the gate.
POV Laura:
I have seen how incredible and receptive the place is for the nine lesbian witches, they treated us like two stowaways right from the start... That's what the ego of rich people does, and they must not even earn almost nothing to show off their wealth... Well we passed with the car through the gate but soon I heard some scratching sounds and glanced in the rearview mirror, the security guard who pointed the gun at me was scratching my car with a key ... He didn't do that, I'm going to sink his face in the asphalt and show him how good it feels... So much so that we pass through the gate and I stop the car which Bernadette looks at me strangely I get down from the door.
I get out of the car and turn each one's gun into bananas which the same ones find strange and soon start laughing because of my height I assume so I soon transport myself and hit a punch with enough force and intensity in the balls of that cursed, then I turn my back and walk out to the car where I pass my hand where he had scratched and restore as it was, the same one was struggling on the floor in pain and I soon give a face back.
- Don't mess with me, I even took it easy. Touch one more finger on my car and I'll make you kiss this asphalt, you broken son of a fucking bitch - I say to him, then I get back to the car and we continue the way to the garage, I just look in the rearview mirror and I see him lying with his ass up, still in pain... It was well deserved, nobody touches my car like that... They better understand very well or I will make them feel what real pain is.
- What's that for, Laura? It's not a very good atmosphere here and you already assault one of the family's security guards! Thank God they didn't come after us! - said Cavenboring scolding me.
- It's my car - I tell her very clearly, and she still gives me another telling off.
- Fuck if it's your car! That's no reason to do that to the security guard! What if he shot you? You could die Laura! Now let's go and not cause any trouble! At least not for three days! Capiche? - Cavenboring said... All right, I'll behave myself. I'll behave myself... I only nodded my head because I didn't want to hear her Cavenboring things, especially since they make me afraid of being scolded.
We continued and soon we parked the car where there was a whole team of butlers and maids waiting for us, as soon as we got out of the car we met Bernadette's grandmother who was waiting for us, the cabbage soon went running with everything towards Isabella and the two gave a nice hug and soon I opened the trunk of the car helping the butlers and maids who then asked me to just stay there without doing anything and they would do everything by themselves. I soon went to Mrs. Cavendish as well.
- Mrs. Cavendish, how nice to see you... I have to say that your security guards are pretty lax, but otherwise everything's fine... Well, I hope that here we will have the wonderful and warm reception that your daughter will probably give to both of us, I am sure... Just the way she is - I say to Isabella, who giggles while the servants of the house finish unloading the car and when everything is gone I lock the car and one of the butlers asks for the key.
- Please miss, allow me to take you to the mansion's garage, this here is just the unloading parking lot - says the valet, which I am a little afraid of, but I hand over the key.
- No making fun of my car! Capiche? - I say handing the key to the same who looked at me with all the fear and then went to my car where I looked carefully where he was driving until he led to a part where was the garage of the house, where I soon noticed that they had some very nice cars, it was expected that they would have Carlucci and Ferucci here, typical of rich people.
POV Bernadette:
So much drama over a car... I still don't understand how she finds all this in just a piece of metal that makes noise and pollutes, she likes these things... She says that she takes all the care in the world with the car, but in the roads that she passed through she was there making fun, slipping with the car with the ground all snowed up, we almost died on the road and she comes to tell me that she takes care of the car like a puppy... Oh, go take a shower Laura... How hypocritical of you my love... Well, after my Laura's freshness with her little baby Clover Emerald Alpha and whatever, we went inside my mansion... The butlers were already taking our bags to our room. We went through there and luckily there was nobody there for the moment. But just when we got to the living room there were my aunt and uncle grandmothers there, both of them were reading books and soon they look at both of us.
- What is this? What the fuck is this Isabella? Why did you bring her here? - said my Aunt Amelia.
- Why is the renegade here? Clarie is not going to like this at all! What are you doing here? You shouldn't be at the Cavendish residence! Turn around if you don't want us to tell Clarie you're here, we're giving you that chance - said my Aunt Marie until I beat my chest to speak.
- I'm not leaving here, I'm back for good and you can take me! I am Bernadette Cavendish! I am a Cavendish! I'm here to show you where I belong! Where I belong! Accept me, for I will not stay here to do nothing! To bow my head and let this family destroy itself! I am here to bring back good, new times - I say this confidently, but the two of them start laughing and finding me ridiculous... Lowering all my morale.
- Hahahaha! You? Do something? Bring the Cavendish family back to new and good times? Only if it's to bring darkness and ruin to our family? Oh go back to Ireland and eat potatoes and stop deluding yourselves as the saviors of the Cavendish family! We don't want you here... Least of all your mother, so follow the path to the exit and don't disturb us, please... We are earnestly asking for the good of both of you - said Marie, who was laughing.
- We don't want our image tied to a racer who only won by cheating in a totally dishonorable way... Nobody wins 79 races that easy and just does it in less than 4 years, that's impossible, you must have only won because you have the best broom... Oh and Bernadette is off to Ireland to continue her delusion of lesbian love with this Leprechaun - they both said and we just continued to ignore so much that we just walked by and went to where our room would be.
That's where my old room used to be... How nice, apparently nothing has changed about it, it still has the same balcony that Rose used to pass to give me Laura's letters and the same suite, the same huge bed, well nothing different, but still all this pomposity and luxury, create an empty sensation to me, they can have light colors, but Laura's room that is darker has much more life than this one, soon we hear explosion sounds and we look through the balcony, from far away it was my mother and my sister training there.
- And then we're going to show our faces? - said Laura to me nodding, and I just agreed.
We both took the brooms and started to fly towards the two who were training and from there we landed Daryl was the first to look and she was dumbfounded and surprised at the same time, my mother turned around after noticing my sister's expression and she is also all shocked... I have never seen that reaction in her since my father died, it was as if a thud had hit her chest... She even walked backwards a little.
- Hello! I'm back, this time to stay - I say to the two who are still silent.
- Hello Cavendish family, allow me to introduce myself... I'm Laura McLaren... Hello Mother-in-law and hello my sister-in-law... That's right you heard, I'm Bernadette's girlfriend - Laura said, which made my mother start to walk towards me, changing her expression to an angry one.
I continued to stare at her without changing my expression, still expressing confidence, I didn't put it down for anything in the world, she soon came close to me and slapped me across the face, which hurt a lot to the point of turning my face a little, I even took a few steps back and she just stared at me with all the anger in the world. My sister still had the same surprised expression.
- What are you doing here? Who called you? I was leaving you alone to be whatever you wanted to be without being my daughter, and now you come back here! With a girlfriend! Telling yourself that everything is fine! What did you think? Did you think I would change my mind and that after three years everything is fine, you bitch? It is not okay! You abandon your family to live your lesbian romance with that potato-eater over there! With this little Irish girl from a family with controversial and incestuous traditions and you come back to me thinking that everything is fine? No! Now get out of here immediately! You are not welcome in this place! Daryl, hurry these two up! Now, girl! - Said my mother in a way I have never seen before... She treated me like any other. I wasn't even a daughter anymore.
My sister just obeyed my mother's order and went all out for both of us, but when she got close we just made a force field and she made every effort to break through, but soon we repelled her without leaving the place, I noticed that she really has a lot of magic, but she must be very tired.
- Oh you know what? Forget it! Daryl is a useless weakling anyway! You can't stay here! I didn't allow it - said my mother until Laura interrupted her.
- One week... We do what we need to do in this one week and leave them alone... Capiche? If you want to solve it by hand then we'll solve it by hand... Tomorrow we'll have a fair fight! One on one! If we win we can stay and solve our issues around the Cavendish family, if we lose we go back to Ireland... What do you think, Clarie? We just promised to sort out a few things this week around here - said Laura to my mother wanting to get out of the way... Really, love... Violence.
- If it's to see you two getting beaten then I accept, tomorrow at noon, without fail, without sabotaging the other before the fight, without wearing magic extending robes, just normal clothes, a fair fight between two witches until they faint and who knows this way I will tolerate you to stay here without bothering them, since you are the little protectors of the family leader, so I assume that it will be difficult to try something - said my mother ... Damn it Laura... And the two of you gave hands is that serious? Laura No! I don't want to take part in this violence.
After that conversation we just left and I was extremely angry, so much so that I quickly took Laura into the bedroom and threw her against the wall, holding her by her shoulders and not letting her touch the floor so that we were the same height. I was very angry at that time, it was one thing to just talk, but another to pick a fight... I don't want violence.
- Laura McLaren maybe Cavendish! Listen here girl, what do you think you are doing? Really, Laura? Violence! You are going to make us get into a fight with my mother or my sister... Look, my love, we have been training all these months not for this, not to solve things with violence, but to avoid it happening, to defend ourselves! But now this? Are we really going to get into a fight with my mother? Damn it, Laura Think! My grandmother wouldn't let my mother throw us out of here - I tell her and then she answers me.
- Believe me, love, it's the best way for us to be at peace in this place... I assure you, it will only be while we wait to perform the ritual to make you head of the Cavendish family in three days... She doesn't disturb us and we don't disturb her, simple as that - Laura says to me until I let go of her and give a snort... After all there is a logic in this, it would be a real hell and a war zone all this so it's better just to continue normally.
- Okay love... But look, give it your all at least, we can't lose and really it would be a real hell with all this mess - I tell her until we both hug each other.
POV Narrator:
The moment has come, Bernadette is back home, in a reception that was not so warm, since no one expected or even wanted the Cavendish presence there, since it was only poorly received, with all the tension of a fight that is about to happen that will determine the future of the Cavendish family. In this conversation between the couple there was someone who was listening to everything and it was Marie and Amelia listening from the bedroom door knowing the ritual of the family leader, they just kept as much secrecy as possible planning something to make it impossible in every possible way that she would become the leader of the family.
See you, Cavendish witches...
